BACKGROUND Reproductive loss carries immeasurable human costs as well as being costly to the health care system. The objectives of this study were to determine the frequency and distribution of cytogenetically abnormal miscarriages from couples with recurrent miscarriage and to compare the results with the general population. METHODS A total of 420 specimens, including 29 pre-clinical, 237 em...

The AMMTIAC Quarterly, Volume 1, Number 2 3 INTRODUCTION Detecting and locating insulation defects in wiring systems is a nontrivial challenge. Ideally, the diagnostic should be nondestructive, capable of detecting a variety of insulation defects, such as cracking, chaffing, and abrasion, and be able to locate the defect accurately to reduce potential inspection and maintenance costs. The diagn...

Some crucial process variables in fermentation process could not be measured directly. Soft sensor technology provided an effective way to solve the problem. There has been considerable interest in modeling a soft sensor by using artificial neural network (ANN) in bioprocess. To generate a more efficient soft sensor model, we proposed a novel soft sensor model based on artificial neural network...

cerebral palsy is the most common chronic motor disorder of childhood, that affecting approximately 3 infants per 1000 live-births. the risk of brain injuries that potentially cause cerebral palsy has amplified with increasing in survival rates for preterm infants. in addition cerebral palsy has a huge economic impact, to immeasurable health, social, and psychological problems that affected chi...

Observational studies suggesting that some drugs are effective at reducing mortality may have been subject to ‘‘immeasurable time bias’’ arising from the unidentified presence of hospitalizations when defining drug exposure with computerized health databases. The author illustrates the bias using a case-control study of 1,313 deaths and 1,313 controls selected from a cohort of 2,049 patients wi...

In many industrial plants, some key variables cannot always be measured on-line and for the purpose of control, a virtual sensing system is often required. This paper is concerned with a development of an alternative intelligent control strategy, which is an integration between adaptive-predictive based controller and intelligent virtual sensing system. This allows an immeasurable variable to b...

In this paper, we propose a fuzzy tracking control for chaotic systems with immeasurable states. First we represent the chaotic and reference systems into T–S fuzzy models. Some properties concerning the premise variable selection and controller placement for chaotic systems are discussed. When considering immeasurable states, an observer is designed along with the controller to track a referen...

" The doctor says she's got a bad heart," said a mother, " but it's us who suffer, not her." How much does the family suffer? Firstly, we wanted to determine whether congenital heart disease has an appreciable impact on the family of the affected child. Secondly, if it has, to assess how the impact is influenced by the cardiac disorder, by the characteristics of the family, and by medical manag...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused immeasurable loss to the world. highly contagious virus poses a challenging risk public health, especially medical doctors, who are in close contact with patients. Thus, robots can help reduce professionals conducting massive testing throat swabs. Soft robots, fabricated compliant materials, allow for low-cost development and safe interaction humans show prom...